How to remove ^M character

[Munden, Randall J]

Or, if you've perl available:

perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/;' [file name]

-----Original Message-----
From: C Peter Biessener [mailto:pbiessener at hirshfields.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:09 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to remove ^M character


You can also use ASCII mode in ftp, it will translate the line ends for 
you.  BINARY mode is for programs and archive files (zip, tar, tgz,
etc...)

Simon Barner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsd....not its every line has ^M at

>>its end. Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be 
>>removed.
> 
> 
> You can use dos2unix(1) for that. There is also the complementary tool

> unix2dos(1).
> 
> Simon

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